Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 16, 2021

That’s because they want to do the same — especially to you, Rat.

Hail Mary, full of grace. Punch the devil in the face. Yeah, that’s you Rat.

In panel 5, there are hundreds of people on his lawn . . .

Lovely.

I still go back to Nov 1, 2018. Laugh every day. GOD Bless gocomics

Did he post that to the Pearls Before Swine Facebook page?

Their heuristics prioritize engagement (how much you are on the app/site). If you’re the kind of person (and they have a lot of information about your behavior) who is engaged by conflict, then yes, they’ll give that to you. But I’m engaged by (dad) jokes and pretty pictures, usually natural. Guess what I get shown.

PS: Go Comics doesn’t seem to care about engagement. I presume they have some other way to monetize our eyeballs.

This is something (mmmph mmmph) knew very well. You know, that guy.

How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?

Don’t hit me in the mouth, it’ll mess up my dental work!

I wonder what his ratio is?

Shades of “Airplane” the movie …

All together now, “Stephan Pastis? I want to punch you in the face!”

His fist is gonna be pretty sore from all that hitting.

The problem is that they have algorithms. Machines decide what you’re interested in, so you never see anything the machine thinks you won’t be interested in, and you – and me, and everybody – gets narrower and narrower.

No worries, cha

The old saying, the squeaky wheel gets the oil!

Unfortunately!

Well… that is conflicting…

The German compound word “backpfeifengesicht” roughly translates to “face in need of a fist”. They must have a word for the person who wants to do the punching.

I think Rat’s likes are from people who would like to punch him.

I just got a 30 day suspention for a spelling error that they would not let me correct at the time.

Social distancing …

If he can reach out and do that, you’re too close.

You don’t need an algorithm to know this. The more divisive a GoComic strip is, the more comments it gets.

Mike Tyson not withstanding, I DO have a plan for that.

To imagine, Rat was merely responding to a member of Congress tweet.

Bah, the characters T R U M P do it for me.

Seems like some of us who write conservative view points have been seeing what Rat is posting for quite some time.

I love that it got the most retweets ever…and also not at all surprised…

How low can Civilization go before it collapses altogether and we (if we survive at all) revert to savagery?

I retweeted this cartoon

Subtle, Rat. As usual for you …

Don’t change a bit.